Excuses, Excuses
I did what I said I told myself I would never do…I only posted one item the entire month. I always told myself that if I was going to have a blog going, I was going to commit to it and ensure that the blog never went stale…there would always be fresh content on my site. I think I may have underestimated the wonderful curves that life throws out there!
I do have what I feel are a few fairly good excuses for being quiet lately. I just recently purchased my first home, which my wife and I are quite excited by. It has kept us both busy moving and making some quick touch-ups and improvements. Even more exciting, we found out that my wife is pregnant with what will be our first child. Again…extremely excited, but I am finding that I am spending a fair amount of time ensuring that things are in place for when the little one arrives.
Finally…I started a new job in June. It’s much more development heavy than my prior position and I’m enjoying it greatly. That being said, there was some time spent ensuring that I get up to speed with the company’s existing projects and work styles. Nothing irritates me more than knowing that I could do something much quicker if I had a better handle on things. I don’t like that “introductory period” where I have to turn to ask questions about simple little procedures simply because I don’t know the company’s tendencies, so I like to get familiarized as quickly as possible.
So between those three things, all exciting as they are, I have had very little time for updating the site. Which is unfortunate…I’ve been working on getting the site switched over to PHP and have some cool and important improvements that will come with this (one of which is an improved comment spam filter….those spammers are amazingly persistent).
There are also numerous posts I have written up that I just need to take the time to add to the site. So the content is there…or, I guess, will be there. The resolution for August is to get back to a regular schedule for updating the site…so stay tuned.
5 Smart Things Were Said
08/4/2008
Congrats on the new job, new house, and child. I’m a very busy coder myself and minus the child, I’m in a very similar situation right now. It is quite exciting. Anyways, congrats and best of luck with the new job.
08/4/2008
Congrats on all the new joys in life Tim. Glad to hear you’ll be posting a bit more regularly now. I guess those are 3 pretty good excuses for a months worth of no posts. Congrats again.
08/4/2008
Thanks for the kind words guys!
@Robert – Give me some credit now….I did add one post.
09/8/2008
Hi…
Actually you can create your own custom data attribute and still validate the page correctly.
As can be seen here:
http://www.alistapart.com/articles/customdtd/
And here:
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/html/own-dtd.html
By all,
Sérgio Diniz
09/12/2008
@Sérgio – Very true! If you roll your own DTD, then technically the page will validate. It’s a good temporary fix, though in the end, it’s going to come down to your opinion on the matter.
Some people don’t like to use custom DTD’s because they don’t like the idea of adding ‘proprietary’ elements and attributes. The idea behind (X)HTML is to provide common semantical meaning to information in a site…and custom elements and attributes, if abused, can definitely get away from that.